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Africa IP highlights 2023: Reforms in IP policy, legislation and administration

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102, outline the criteria for Collective Management Organizations to determine license fees for music usage. License payments are due annually, and joint invoices must be settled within one month of issuance. Each license remains valid for one year from the date of issue. These tariffs, published in Kenya Gazette Supplement No.

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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

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The third defendant was licensed to produce and market the disputed foods and spices under its own name and at its own expense, paying a fixed fee to the plaintiff for each individual product sold. Compensation presupposes culpability and infringement of IP (or related rights) (i.e.,

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The Resolution of the European Parliament on protection of live sport events

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In this sense, the Legislative Decree 9/2008 relating to “Discipline of ownership and marketing of audiovisual sports rights and relative allocation of resources” acknowledges that the professional league and the clubs are joint owners of the audiovisual rights relating to matches.

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Why the implementation of the Italian press publishers’ right might not be compatible with EU Law

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Aimed at ensuring remuneration for publishers when their publications are reused online by news aggregators, Article 15 grants press publishers the right of reproduction and the right of making available for online uses of their press publications by information society service providers.

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The EU DSM Copyright Directive: Implementation in Germany 2021 – Part II

Kluwer Copyright Blog

As such, the exemption is reduced to a priority for individual licensing. VGG, an extended collective licensing mechanism, something which is set out as optional under EU law (see below). 31, 36, 37, 39 – Pelham, in the context of the phonogram producer’s right (with the same basis in EU law in Article 2 InfoSoc Directive)).

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Why the implementation of the Italian press publisher rights might not be compatible with EU Law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Aimed at ensuring remuneration for publishers when their publications are reused online by news aggregators, Article 15 grants press publishers the right of reproduction and the right of making available for online uses of their press publications by information society service providers.

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EU copyright law round up – third trimester of 2021

Kluwer Copyright Blog

and Right to Know CLG challenged a decision by the European Commission to not grant (free and public) access to harmonised standards adopted by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN). 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 ) was that doing so would undermine the copyright protection of the standards at issue.